aloha!
does anyone have any information they can share with the W3C community
about the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA)
http://www.accessinteropalliance.org/
to quote from the AIA press release dated 2007/12/10:
<q
cite="http://www.accessinteropalliance.org/newsevents/pr121007.html">
Industry Alliance Aims to Increase Accessibility, Interoperability and
Innovation
</q>
so i was wondering how the AIA plans to work with other related fora,
such as the W3C/WAI, the Open Accessibility Workgroup at the Linux
Foundation (http://a11y.org/), and the many other entities with which
communication and harmonization of efforts is essential?
for example, how does the AIA view the work on IAccessible2 that is being
conducted at:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2
will it sync with work on the Accessible Tool Kit/Assistive Technology
Special Programming Interface (ATK/AT-SPI) framework, which has a mapping
to IAccessible2, as well as other platform-agnostic accessibility
applications, APIs, or architectures?
http://accessibility.linux-foundation.org/a11yspecs/atspi/adoc/
all i know about the AIA, i've gleaned from their web site... there is
a steering committee comprised of of 3: an Information Technology Member,
an Assistive Technology member, and an at-large member... the current
composition of the AIA steering committee (through january 2010) is:
* IT Member: Andrew Kirkpatrick, Corporate Accessibility Engineering
Lead - Adobe;
* AT Member: Claudio Giugliemma, CEO - QualiLife;
* At-Large Member: Rob Sinclair, Director of Accessibility - Microsoft
QualiLife is an entity with which i am not familiar, but on their web
site, they state:
<q cite="http://qualilife.com/home/index.cfm">
Our software technologies (Assistive Technologies) have been conceived
and developed to fulfill the real needs of all people with physical
disabilities, of any age, degree and type of disability. We provide full
accessibility to all existing technologies in all fields, like:
Telephony, Environmental control, Verbal and Written communication,
Internet, fax, e-mail, SMS, DVD, Audio & Video, Virtual Reality, Business
Solutions, Web, Games, etc.
</q>
and they do offer a very impressive array and scope of products, but they
do not seem to be a W3C member organization, or at least i could not find
them when i queried the member-confidential search facility using the
option "All W3C" -- in fact, the only hit i obtained was a link to the
minutes of a meeting (archived in member-confidential space, since it was
at a member-confidential meeting) at which i asked if anyone was familiar
with QualiLife...
can anyone shed any light on this initiative? is anyone liaising with
AIA?
gregory.
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